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Thursday, 24 April 2014

Woman spends
$15,000 on plastic
surgery in quest
for perfect selfie

The duck face was just not enough for this woman. More »
The secret to
encryption was
hiding inside the
human body

Turns out, the best encryption tool in existence is the human heart. More »
This is what
happens when your
identity is stolen
on Tinder

Tinder doesn’t actually do that much to ensure users are who they say are. More »
Angry Egyptian mob tears down radio tower over radiation concerns

A group of Egyptians tore down a radio tower reportedly fearing “the mobile waves emitted could be harmful to their families and their crops.” More »
A history of the Internet’s freakish obsession with Shrek

Shrek is love. Shrek is life. More »
Meet the activists fighting back against Amazon

A group of activists in England are carrying out a series of protests aimed at forcing Amazon into changing its working conditions. More »
These Internet scammers want your dogecoins to ‘save Venezuela’

Doge Save Venezuela purports to be raising funds to help dissidents using Dogecoin, but how legitimate can it be? More »
How the Internet made the printer sexy again

Thanks to Kickstarter, a new wave of innovative printers are hitting the marketplace. More »

This is why
psychologists hate
journalists

That quiz you took to check if your colleague was a sociopath isn't all that accurate. More »
Why I rank my friends by income, IQ, and hotness

Milo Yiannopoulos explains why he keeps a database of his friends and colleagues and rates their personal, professional, physical and financial attributes. More »
Tech City: I hate to say ‘I told you so’

In the first instalment of his new weekly column, Milo Yiannopoulos reflects on Government disasters in east London, Lily Cole’s website and Adolf Hitler. More »
Advice for aspiring Edward Snowdens

Edward Snowden wasn't the hero that the American people needed. Greg Stevens looks at why his mission as a whistleblower failed and what the next government leaker should bear in mind. More »
Is it OK to laugh at Hitler now?

Mein Kampf is sailing to the top of the e-book charts. Jeremy Wilson on how the Nazis are becoming fair game again - and why that might be dangerous. More »
The anti-sugar campaign is sinister and silly

You don't bully people into eating more healthily by banning sugar. It's a cop out designed to grab headlines, says Chris Tilbury. More »

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